A wee bit of help for tomato plants
Cape Times (Free subscription) | 12/02/2009
IF you're a keen vegetable gardener, but find your fertiliser bill a bit high, here's a way to cut costs: urinate on the plants.
Tomato plants
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Heritage tomatoes - they don't make them like they used to!
Green Jellybean (Free subscription) | 11/27/2009
It is nearly the end me November and I have left a tomato plant in a small raised bed as an experiment. The variety is Tibet Appel, which I got last year from Garden Organic's Heritage Seed Library. The plant was late and the claim is that the seed came from Tibet and thrives outside in cooler conditions. Well it has been very chilly in Norfolk and the fruits are still developing...
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Finally!
The Mad Gnomes Strike Again! (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
The first tomatoes are in the ground. There was no way I could have planted any vegetable seedlings before the heatwave. They would have all been crispy fried. So, when it cooled down and it even drizzled, I went out there and started planting. The tomato seedlings are over 1 meter tall and flopping over in the boxes. I had put them in the shade during the heatwave....
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Towards Sustainability (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
The Tommy Toe cherry tomato I planted in late winter started fruiting last week, with the normal large, round cherry toms. However now, they are starting to look like this! A miniature 'normal' tomato... Anyone had this happen before? I'm not worried about it as such - they still taste good! - but it's a little weird. * Edited to add: My Rouge de Marmande tomatoes have just started...
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Tomatoes
Guided by History (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
Thanksgiving is almost here, and I've finally finished readying my yard for winter : I raked leaves, put away the grill, and pulled out the remnants of my garden – like my tomato plants. I had been feasting off homegrown tomatoes...
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Tomatoes
prsync (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
Thanksgiving is almost here, and I've finally finished readying my yard for winter : I raked leaves, put away the grill, and pulled out the remnants of my garden – like my tomato plants. I had been feasting off homegrown tomatoes all summer, making salsas and salads and eating them straight from the plant. And while some folks can tomatoes come fall,...
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Many ways to support tomatoes (repost)
NAPLESPLUS - Naples FL Community (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
Original is at: http://simple-green-frugal-co-op.blogspot.com/2008/11/many-ways-to-support-tomatoes.html Many ways to support tomatoes Posted by Marc from Garden Desk My garden has no tomato plants in it right now. It is Fall in my garden and I am growing lots of broccoli, cabbage and lettuce in the space where tomatoes grew during Summer....
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Green Tomatoes! What do I do with them all?
Serious Eats: Talk (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
Frost is in the air, so we chopped down the remains of the tomato plants. I now have about 15 kilos (!!!) of green tomatoes in my kitchen. I've already made more green tomato pickles than we can eat, a...
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Tomato Blight, What Tomato Blight?
Veggie Gardening Tips (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
Okay, I’ll admit that this summer was a terrible one for growing tomatoes, and no, I can’t make claims that my garden was immune from the sting of Tomato Blight! But you know what, I still had more than enough homegrown tomatoes to enjoy and share with friends in spite of the widespread disease. This [...]
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Pear Pie, Lemon Buds and Fried Green Tomatoes
A Study in Contrasts (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
Seriously, is this not one of the weirdest blog post titles you have ever seen? It's definitely been a strange stretch of days, both garden- and cooking-wise, though, so the title "fits" my week pretty well! The weirdness started on Sunday night, when I freaked out a little bit because the temperatures were supposed to drop down into the low 30s for the first time. I had left my tomato...
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Want to grow über tomatoes really fast? Use carbon nanotubes as fertilizer.
SciGuy (Free subscription) | 10/24/2009
Arkansas scientists have made a simply stunning discovery with carbon nanotubes, long a darling of researchers because they are exceptionally strong, lightweight and highly conductive. In their experiment (see their paper in ACS Nano) the scientists exposed tomato plant seeds...
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Garden Detective: Pests on pole beans, rooting daphne
Sacramento Bee (Free subscription) | 17 hours ago
Daphne can be rooted but the plant requires excellent drainage. I pulled up my pole beans in September. They were getting these little gray-black bugs or eggs on back of the leaves and stems. It looks like the bugs that rose bushes get. Could they be aphids? What can I do to kill them and keep them from taking over my plants? Would Sevin work? They also attacked my squash, cucumbers...
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green tomatoes
sustainable garden (Free subscription) | 10/21/2009
Growing tomatoes on the same latitude as Labrador brings certain challenges. This has been a superb year for tomatoes grown in our greenhouse with bumper crops and a long season. But the nights are cooler now and the hours of daylight are reducing. It is time to take the tomato plants down and to strip them of their fruit. We have bowls of juicy red tomatoes...
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Find Your Sanctuary In Gardening
Home Remedies (Free subscription) | 12/02/2009
Drip Depot Article 5 Tomatoes are by far one of the best plants for the amateur gardener to first experience the joy and pride of gardening with. They produce delicious and readily edible fruit that almost anyone can enjoy and are highly tolerant to the mishaps that come with inexperienced gardening. For many, the tomato is a staple of the home garden and cannot be overlooked...
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Of changes and growth...
kirin notebook - textiles, design, craft (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
... Australian Cypress window box by Box My Garden - mmmm parsley And I couldn't write a post about plants without mentioning the little tomato plant that Lou dug up from her garden! She said she has seedlings popping up all over the place so Teegs, Bee and I each got a tomato plant (mystery variety) and some basil. Thanks Lou! Little mystery tomato...
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